later accidentally blinded. He sent his son Tobias to get the family treasure, which had been hid with a relative. Although Tobit and Tobias did not know it, Tobias’s traveling companion was the angel Raphael. After sundry adventures, Tobias married a relative named Sarah and found a remarkable remedy for his father’s blindness. All ends well. The entertaining tale may have been written in the third century B.C. Before the Qumran discoveries, the earliest surviving version of Tobit was in Greek,